Vapor-burner



(No Model.)

O. B. PECK.

. VAPOR BURNER. 7 No. 317.567. Patented May 12, 1885;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

V ORRIN B. PEOK, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

VAPOR-BURNER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 317,567, dated lWay 12,1885.

Application filed December 20, 1884.

T0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORRIN B. PEoK, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, Illinois, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Vapor-Burners, of which the following is aspecification.

In the drawings, Figure 1 shows my vaporburner as it appears when puttogether for use, and Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same.

A represents the oil vessel or retort; B, the water-vessel; O, theoil-supply pipe; D, the water-supp] y pipe; E, the pipes leading to theburners; F, the T-heads in which the orifices at which the oil or vaporburned are situated, and G the drip-pan.

In constructing avaporburner containing my improvements, I first cast acup, bowl, or vessel of the proper size, regard. being had to thecharacter of the service to which it is to be applied, containingopenings,which are intended in use to be in the bottom of the vessel,which I term the oil-receiving retort or chamber, and whose use I willproceed to explain. The largest of the holes, which is placed preferablyin the center of the bottom, is intended for the insertion of the heador upper end of the watercontaining vessel, and to that end is properlyprovided with screw-threads. A water-containing portion or vessel iscast preferably in the shape of an inverted cone, the upper end beingprovided with a removable plug and containing screw-threads adapted toscrew into the appropriate hole in the oil-retort. NVhen screwed intoplace, the top of the plug of thewater-vessel, which may be made oval,eX- tends up a slight distance from the surrounding bottom, and isprovided at its top with a number of perforations, through which thevapor, when generated, will rush out with considerable force. The lowerand smaller end of the water-vessel is properly connected with awater-supply pipe, as shown in the draw ings. An oil-supply pipe entersthe oil-retort at the bottom to lead the oil from a suitable reservoirinto the same. Two pipes at either side of the water-vessel also enterthe oil-retort, and are screwed in until they rise one or two inchesabove its bottom. They are open at the top, and are provided with one ormore (No model.)

fine perforations-say about a quarter of an inch above the bottom of theoil-retort-so that after the oil from the supply-pipe has accumulated toa corresponding depthit flows out through the pcrforations,and isprevented from overflowing the top of the water-vessel and entering thesame through the perforations above mentioned as provided in its head.These eduction-pipes are extended up from the bottom, as describedabove, and left open at the top, so that the vapor, which is too largein volume to pass out through the perforations, will rise to the top ofthe retort, which is heated necessarily to a much greater heat than thebottom, where the introduction of the oil reduces the temperature, andso become superheated before escaping to the burners. At the bottom ofthese two depending pipes T- heads are placed, which are also providedwith perforations or orifices, through which the oil flowing on t of theoil-retort, as above described, may escape, and at which it may beburned. A pan may be placed just below these T-heads to catch thedripping oil.

The whole burner or retort may be placed in a stove or other appropriateplace for use.

In operation the oil is admitted through the supply-pipe to theoil-retort, where it accumulates on the bottom until it reaches andflows out by the perforations and down the depending pipes until itappears at the orifices in the T-heads and begins to drip into the pan.It is then set on fire by dropping a lighted match into the drip-pan,and burns with great intensity. The water is turned into the watervesselat the time the oil is lighted and before it has become heated. Theburning oil in a very short time heats both the water-vessel and theoil-retort sufficiently hot to turn the water and the oil into vapor asfast as they flow into their respective vessels. The vapor from thewater rushes out through the orifices in the head of the water-vesselwith such force as to become thoroughly eommingled with the vapor fromthe oil generated in the oil-retort, and together they enter thedepending pipes, whose tops are open, and pass out through the orificesin the T-heads, where they are burned. Thus the combustion of the oilbegins the generation of the vapor in the water and oil ves- 10perforated head, opening into the oil-retort,

water and oilsupply pipes, and burners,whereby the vapors arising fromthe decomposed oil and water are thoroughly commingled and the burnerssupplied with vapor taken principally from the top of the oil-retort,substantially as described.

ORRIN B. PECK. \Vitnesses:

PIERCE BUTLER, E. F. HUBBARD.

